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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. OpenEdge vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

dgraph.io

www.progress.com/openedge

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dgraph.io/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2016

1984

2018

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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